Word: gomel
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...impressive marble building remindful of No. 23 Wall St., the bland and open citadel of J. P. Morgan & Co. Also bland and open is No. 1, citadel of the Mitsui Gomel Kaisha...
There are richer holding companies than Mitsui Gomel Kaisha but in all the world there is no other enterprise at once so vast and so diverse. Its agencies in foreign lands outnumber the embassies and consulates of the Japanese Empire. Deposits with one of its subsidiaries, Mitsui Bank, exceed the annual tax revenues of all the cities of Japan. Another subsidiary, Mitsui Trading Co., handles one-fourth of all Japan's foreign trade. Under its house flag in normal times sails a chartered merchant fleet as large as the whole mercantile marine of France...